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Another person dies in fresh collapsed buildings

Kazeem Ugbodaga Another person has been reported dead as two more buildings collapsed in Bariga and Ikorodu areas of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria on Wednesday after heavy rainfall. A two-storey building under construction collapsed on Tuesday at Ojodu area, leading to the demise of two construction workers. One of the collapsed buildings is located at [...]

2-Storey Church building collapses, one person dies

Recuers at the scene of the collapsed church in Ojodu, Lagos. Photo: Joseph Oluwasanmi

Kazeem Ugbodaga One person has been killed as a two-storey building under construction collapsed at Ojodu area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. P.M. NEWS gathered that the building collapsed around 4.05 pm today, with seven construction workers resting under it, while the eighth person, a boy had gone on errand for the team leader. Loud noise [...]

Briton freed, 3 Lebanese kidnapped

A Briton abducted last week in Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos has been released in an incident believed to be a ransom kidnapping, police and the British government said Thursday. But in what looked like an increasing trend of abduction in the city, three Lebanese were also reportedly kidnapped on Tuesday. Lebanon’s foreign ministry announced the [...]

Goldie, Afro pop singer buried

Goldie: buried

FUNSHO AROGUNDADE Family, friends and colleagues of Nigeria’s Afro pop singer, Oluwabimpe Susan Harvey, popularly known as Goldie Harvey, today aid their last respect to the singer as she was buried at the Vaults and Gardens Cemetery, Ikoyi, Lagos. The late singer, whose remains was placed in a brown MIC Casket, was brought into the [...]

Nigerians launch cerebral palsy initiative

Experts from different fields will gather in Lagos on 26 February to educate the public as well as public policy makers about the problem of cerebral palsy, what legislation is needed to address the problem in Nigeria and the funding required to provide facilities. A statement released weekeend said the unveiling of Benola, a cerebral [...]

Digger Dies Inside Well

By Kazeem Ugbodaga A well digger identified as  David  has died at Abule Egba area of Lagos State Southwest Nigeria, inside a well he was digging. The incident took place at James Iwajomo Street, Olota in Abule Egba area of Lagos. The residents were thrown into mourning when the body of the well digger, who [...]

60 suspected oil thieves arrested in Lagos

File photo: some arrested oil pipeline vandals

Kazeem Ugbodaga Officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDCs, have arrested 60 persons suspected of siphoning petrol from oil pipeline at Majidun area of Ikorodu, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. Tapping fuel illegally from pipelines is common at Majidun, a suburb of Lagos, where villagers specialize in oil bunkering, raking in millions of naira [...]







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